Foodie Fun: Biscuits and Bacon Gravy

Hey all you foodies out there! I have two recipes and a video for you today. The video is here. I knead some dough and talk about being lonely.

I love making biscuits and gravy. I used to just use canned biscuits and packaged gravy, but there were two problems with this once I started living on my own: 1) I don’t eat that much food and 2) it’s not as good.

So, now I make my biscuits from scratch. I got the recipe from the Betty Crocker Cookbook (2006). I also make my bacon gravy from scratch because I’m not a huge fan of sausage. What follows are my adaptations of the two things, though I encourage checking out the BC book (it’s kind of like my Bible) and the original Bacon Gravy recipe.

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Baking Powder Biscuits

Serving: 3 biscuits

Things to use

1/2 cup flour

1/4 tbsp sugar

3/4 tbsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/8 cup shortening

1/4 cup of milk (or more, depending)

Things to do

Make sure that oven is hot at 450 (preheating can wait until dough is ready if you want to make sure the gravy is ready to go at the same time and you don’t have a helper. #singlelife)

Mix dry goods (i.e. everything buy shortening and milk)

Cut in shortening. Use a pastry blender if you’re fancy. Use two kitchen knives if you’re like me. (The BC bible has great tips like how to do this, but there’s probably a YouTube tutorial somewhere. Honestly I just get frustrated and use my hands.)

Stir in milk until dough is verrrrrry sticky.

Knead dough on lightly floured surface until it seems of biscuit dough consistency. If you aren’t sure what that consistency is, open a can of canned biscuits for reference.

Cut using either (fancy-style) cookie cutter or (Jen-style) a glass. Place on greased (PAMed) cookie sheet.